Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] in [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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1 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
2 | But , since he was Professor ( or , as we would now call him , Principal ) at the Veterinary College for over 45 years , and Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon for nearly 43 years , and since in these positions he inevitably greatly influenced the development of our College and profession , an attempt at a balanced re-appraisal seems worthwhile . |
3 | A wind was blowing , and to protect the flame of the match he bent forward , and while in this position he was seized from behind by the right shoulder and pulled backwards . |
4 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
5 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |